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Open enrollment for Medicare is right around the corner, and Emerald Medicare of Nyack is hosting several free Medicare Q&A sessions here in the county tonight and over the next few weeks. Mark Brownstein is the Director of Medicare for Emerald Medicare, and says evaluating health care issues during this time period can be complicated and the paperwork can be overwhelming…

Emerald Medicare is hosting several events before open enrollment begins October 15th and runs through December 7th. There’s one tonight at Nyack Library from 6-8PM, BOCES in West Nyack Thursday the 26th, and then on October 22nd at the Rockland JCC in West Nyack. For more information visit EmeraldMedicare.com/events or call 845-358-1220.

Area seniors who are looking to help young children with life skills are urged to attend tomorrow’s RCC Senior Club meeting. Ray Botto of the RCC Senior Club says Keyana Jack, the director of the Head Start of Rockland’s foster grandparents program, will be explaining how folks can get involved…

The presentation gets underway tomorrow at noon at the RCC Tech Center Ellipse starting at noon. It is free and open to everyone.

Today is the 18th anniversary of the terror attacks of 2001 on New York and Washington DC and many events are taking place here in the county. The Rockland County commemoration is being held today at the 9/11 Memorial starting at 8:30 at Haverstraw Bay County Park. RCC’s ceremony begins at 8:15 at the Technology Center Ellipse. In Spring Valley, a service will be held at 11 am at Memorial Park on Main Street featuring the East Ramapo Marching Band.

Services around the five towns get underway this evening. Clarkstown’s service is at town hall from 5 to 6pm, Haverstraw and the Rockland County Marine Corps League hold their ceremony at 6pm at Haverstraw Town Hall. Orangetown’s memorial ceremony is also at 6pm on the Monument Lawn at Orangetown Town Hall (weather permitting, otherwise inside town hall). Ramapo’s service begins at 7pm in the Town Council Room at Ramapo Town Hall. In Suffern, a ceremony will be held at 7pm at Village Hall. In Sloatsburg a memorial service will be held at 8pm at the community fields on Route 17. Stony Point’s candlelight memorial service begins at 7pm at Stony Point Town Hall.

The town of Stony Point is looking for ways to combat noisy house parties being thrown at homes people are renting and advertising on the internet. Stony Point supervisor Jim Monaghan says he met recently with the police and area residents about a home owned by an LLC on Tiorati Trail. Monaghan says the police have been there repeatedly during the summer…

Naomi Striecher of Realty Teams, who’s real estate segment “Realty Talk” can be heard here on WRCR every Monday morning at 7:15, says people often look for homes for such “investment opportunities”…

Monaghan says the town passed a new ordinance this summer to help them deal with nuisance violations. Police can issue code violations with fines up to $10,000 on the third offense, but Monaghan says fighting an LLC owner in court has been proving to be difficult.

Mel’s Army Navy had a long history on William Street in Pearl River, and there were two street signs honoring his presence there, one at the corner of Central Avenue, the other at the corner of Franklin near the shop’s original location. They read “Mel Liebman Plaza,” named for its long-time owner who died in 2015. Well, the signs went missing recently, according to a caller to “The Morning Show” who asked Orangetown supervisor Chris Day about them…

Mel’s first opened in 1955, and sold outerwear, camping gear and more, until it closed in 2017.